Sentences with phrase «traditional god of»

I immediately noticed the new control scheme, which felt more in line with Bloodborne than a traditional God of War title.

Many of the best treasures are found hidden behind traditional God of War style puzzles.

This doctrine rendered meaningless the traditional God of justice, compassion and salvation, replacing it with an ethics fit only for a society of unimaginative shopkeepers.

Underlying them is a sort of «fudging» liberalism, which sees clearly the plight of modern despair and Godlessness but hopes vainly for the reappearance of the traditional God of the past.

The traditional gods of oligarchy and empire have, in the words of Walter Brueggemann, a «royal consciousness [which] leads to numbness, especially to numbness about death.

American Gods centers on a war brewing between the traditional gods of mythological roots from around the world and an upstart pantheon of gods reflecting society's modern love of money, technology, media, celebrity and drugs.

Bryan Fuller has taken to Twitter to share a first - look image of Kristin Chenoweth's Easter — complete with Easter bonnet — from Starz's upcoming Neil Gaiman adaptation American Gods... SEE ALSO: Watch the first trailer for American Gods American Gods posits a war brewing between old and new gods: the traditional gods of mythological roots -LSB-...]

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When, you know, people look at history and look at the traditional economic models that said, «This sort of growth, this sort of wage, you know, 4 % unemployment rate, my God, you're gonna see this sort of inflation.»

Like all mainline Protestant denominations, United Methodism finds itself challenged on its traditional position on sexual morality by the emergence of the conscientious conviction that gay and lesbian relationships are a legitimate expression of God's good and diverse creation.

It's just hair - splitting on mainline Christianity whether to criticize traditional black - American denominations, or just go after the god of the religion in general.

We had a beautiful church, a traditional New England style house of god.

Volf argues that Muslims have routinely misunderstood the doctrine of the Trinity as a form of polytheism, but the fact remains that traditional Muslims do not accept Jesus as the Son of God.

There are other big differences between Mormonism and traditional Christianity, including the Mormon belief that the modern prophets of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints can receive revelations from God.

In the twentieth century, death - of - God theologies presumed that modern science and philosophy make traditional concepts of God untenable.

Their presence is most obvious in the Reform branch of modern Judaism, which altered the traditional prayer book to soften or even erase the affirmation that God will raise the body from the dead at the end of time.

Recently, I've come to understand to a greater degree how «a theology» can replace «a faith» and mask itself as the real thing.I'm not anti-theological, in fact, I'm very theological - the difference in my approach now is a realization that if one has some degree of traditional, but contemporary faith in God (as I do), then a theology is inevitable....

Its theology is simple, it is traditional and legalistic in ethics, it embraces wealth, and it proclaims a God of pure power who requires obedience.

This question arose from Luther's deep religious or existential insight into the inauthenticity of all human works before God — an inauthenticity systematically denied by the sacramental rituals, dogmatic faith, and mystical aspiration of traditional Christianity.

Some use religious terminology to describe personal experience and belief but do not believe in any of it literally and reject all traditional notions of deity, relying upon cohesive natural law as «god.»

Christianity: 2.1 billion Islam: 1.3 billion Hinduism: 900 million Chinese traditional religion: 394 million Buddhism: 376 million African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million Sikhism: 23 million Juche: 19 million Spiritism: 15 million Judaism: 14 million Baha'i: 7 million Jainism: 4.2 million Shinto: 4 million Cao Dai: 4 million Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million Tenrikyo: 2 million Neo-Paganism: 1 million Unitarian - Universalism: 800 thousand Rastafarianism: 600 thousand Scientology: 500 thousand [Source: Encyclopedia Britannica] If you believe in God, you have chosen to reject Allah, Vishnu, Budda, Waheguru and all of the thousands of other gods that other people wortraditional religion: 394 million Buddhism: 376 million African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million Sikhism: 23 million Juche: 19 million Spiritism: 15 million Judaism: 14 million Baha'i: 7 million Jainism: 4.2 million Shinto: 4 million Cao Dai: 4 million Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million Tenrikyo: 2 million Neo-Paganism: 1 million Unitarian - Universalism: 800 thousand Rastafarianism: 600 thousand Scientology: 500 thousand [Source: Encyclopedia Britannica] If you believe in God, you have chosen to reject Allah, Vishnu, Budda, Waheguru and all of the thousands of other gods that other people worTraditional & Diasporic: 100 million Sikhism: 23 million Juche: 19 million Spiritism: 15 million Judaism: 14 million Baha'i: 7 million Jainism: 4.2 million Shinto: 4 million Cao Dai: 4 million Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million Tenrikyo: 2 million Neo-Paganism: 1 million Unitarian - Universalism: 800 thousand Rastafarianism: 600 thousand Scientology: 500 thousand [Source: Encyclopedia Britannica] If you believe in God, you have chosen to reject Allah, Vishnu, Budda, Waheguru and all of the thousands of other gods that other people worship today.

There are hundreds of traditional creation stories that also call upon magical beings and gods to explain how the universe began.

Not to mention, for those of you who have a belief and has ur faith in Traditional Christianity (along with any other religion); YOU WILL SUFFER the 7 last plagues of God, due to the mark of the beast that is about to be enforced by a resurrected ROMAN EMPIRE that is arising now in Europe unless you can repent and turn to the ONE and ONLY TRUE GOD!

If you look at the entire religious structure (who they believe God to be, their daily relationship with God, who they think God was before, their view of heaven, their view of Jesus, etc.), traditional Christianity and Islam have a lot more in common than traditional Christianity and Mormonism.

As I suggested in the review, this sort of more modest claim would be orthodox, and consistent with the traditional view that only pure perfections pertain to God's essence.

This global compilation of traditional wisdom shows that none of the great, classical religious traditions conceived of God as a mere intelligent Designer, or as a First Cause within nature, or as a highly moral Personality who happens to be divine as well, or any kind of all - powerful agent that has a primus inter pares relationship with other, less powerful Superbeings and Incredibles.

I think that religion, and to a greater point, belief in gods will be relegated to the scrap pile of harmless traditional myth.

In traditional theology this delegation of power is sometimes called God's «permissive» will.

Both views preserve God's essential monopoly of power, and, in the end, according to the implications I have drawn from traditional doctrine, DP2 collapses into DP1.

Because of this, many have called you a representative of postmodern Christianity — postmodern in the sense that while holding to the traditional doctrines of Christianity, you embrace a view of God's love and grace that extends beyond the parameters evangelicals tend to establish about who is «in» and who is «out» in God's family.

Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.

a: allegiance to duty or a person: loyalty b (1): fidelity to one's promises (2): sincerity of intentions 2a (1): belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2): belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust 3: something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially: a system of religious beliefs

Returning to Job, the traditional reading of this story assumes that God delegates power to Satan and allows him to persecute Job by divine permission.

Viewed in the traditional apocalyptic way, this prayer appears to be a request for God to discontinue the system of DP2 (the implication of the permissive will is clear), and replace it with a DP1 regime.

According to traditional theology, God will ultimately take full control of our bike - wills.

Schweitzer's disenchantment with theological conceptions of God and his passionate belief in the reality of human spirituality involved him in a quest that inevitably forced his intellectual and moral concerns to move beyond traditional theism.

Kant's moral argument for God demands a deity who exercises power in the traditional manner, but his principal moral theory requires that he become a process theist on the question of divine power.

Not only is Basinger unable to make divine coercionb intelligible, he also appears to be wrong in implying that the traditional God does not exercise coercion in the strong sense of unilateral determination.

Craig that was exactly my understanding however if we believe that in that traditional sense a person could lose there eternal life by there actions by not walking in the Lord which i do nt think is right as eternal life is a free gift from God not based on works.Jeremys definition is that we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ to eternal life.I believe the term salvation has the meaning to be saved not necesarily to eternal life but saved from ourselves Christ gives us the power to be transformed into his likeness or to be Christ like.In the eternal picture our actions determine how we are rewarded from God although its not the motivation of the reward but because we love the Lord.regards brent

Furthermore, the traditional God can insure the final triumph of the good and the defeat of evil.

This is not just true of impoverished people, addicts, prostitutes, and those we normally think of, but dignity extended to those who have been terribly wounded by the impossible standards of traditional religion can work wonders in showing people that God is not a tyrant whose expectaions we can never live up to, but a loving Father who takes us as we are.

I wandered through other church traditions, traditional, contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you name it, I found my way there and I found the people of God in each place, I did.

In traditional theism nature has no intrinsic value, so the fact that it exists merely for God's purposes and is then destroyed is of no moral consequence.

The actual situation has been that by the time the encounter with Buddhism became important to Western thinkers in the nineteenth century, the traditional idea of God was already losing convincing power.

Chiefly, this means that passages traditional interpreters have employed to argue that the initial aim is derived from the Consequent Nature of God rather than the Primordial Nature alone fail to provide evidence for this view

Imagine how traditional Christians would be perceived if, say, they advocated for gay marriage on the grounds of democratic fairness, this despite their deeply held convictions that God disapproves of those marriage.

From the 1930s through the 1980s Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik represented the alternative: an Orthodoxy centered on the service of God even while engaged with and concerned for the rest of humanity, deeply, almost obsessively devoted to the traditional study of Torah even while confronting and learning from the liberal arts.

In terms of Whitehead's total philosophy the move toward a temporal nature of God seems easy enough, but it was such a novel departure from traditional Western classical theism that it is no wonder that Whitehead was so long blind to these possibilities.

After examining the traditional Christian teaching of supersessionism — that is, the belief that Christians have replaced the Jews as God's chosen ones — we surveyed some of the post-Holocaust Christian literature, from the groundbreaking Vatican II document Nostra Aetate to the many ecclesial statements and theological writings that have striven to revise Christian understandings of Judaism.

For by «mental» prayer traditional writers have intended to denote the kind of conscious relationship with God that does not require the use of words, spoken or formed.

Whitehead's argument for the existence of God, insofar as there is an argument at all, is primarily the traditional one from the order of the universe to a ground of order.